Unloading, storing, and reloading of material.



W. F. HUNT.

UNLOADING, STORING, AND RELOADING 0F MATERIAL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1916. V

Patented eYam. 22,1918.

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UNLOADING, STORING, AND RELOADING 0F MATERIAL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25. 1916.

1 25%fl22'v Patented Jan. 22, 1918.

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UNLOADING, STORING, AND RELOADiNG 0F MATERIAL. APPLICATION map MAY25.1916.

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///6' A TTOR/VEYS WILLIAM F. HUNT, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

UNLOADING, STORING, AND RELOADING 0]? MATERIAL.

Application filed May 25, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM FrHUNT, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of New Brighton, borough of Richmond, city .ofNew York,county of Richmond, and

State of New York, have made .a new and.

useful Invention in the Unloading, Storing, and Reloading of Material,of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in plants for handling, unloading,storing and reloading of such materials as coal or ore and hasparticular reference to the arrangement of tracks relative to thestorage-space of the plant and to the apparatus whereby material can beconveniently unloaded from a car and conveyed to a storage-space andwhereby the material from the storage-space can be subsequently pickedup and conveyed to the place desired; as, for instance, to a storage-binon a tower which straddles a track or to an engine or car on a track.

The embodiment of the apparatus as illustrated is constructed so thatthe material can be delivered from the storage-bin on the tower to a caror engine which is under the storage-bin, or to a car or engine on atrack at one side of the tower.

As illustrating a specific manner in which the invention may be realizedreference is made to the drawings forming a part of this specificationand in which drawings,

Figure 1 illustrates in plan a portion of a plant embodying myinvention.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the plant shown in Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing the arrangement of the tower and acar in operative position to be unloaded or loaded by the employment ofsuch tower.

1 designates a storage-space along which i a longitudinally extendingridge of coal or other material 2 can be deposited for storage purposes.A siding track 3 is arranged along and adjacent to the storage-space 1and adjacent to the siding track 3 there is located what may be referredto as a running track 4. The tracks 3 and 4: are parallel to each otherand also may be constructed to extend along, parallel to, and adjacentto the storage-space; or, in other words, parallel to the longitudinallyextending ridge of coal which is deposited on said storage-space. Atower track 5-which comprises the rails G and 7 -straddles the sidingtrack 3, and a tower 8 is mounted upon this Specification of LettersPatent.

?atented Jan. 22, 191.

Serial No. 99,729.

where, as desired, along said ridge of stored material or along thestorage-space. The lower portion of the tower is constructed with a free.space, designated as by the broken line A, whereby an engine or .carcan pass along said siding track through or under the tower. This spaceis designated by the broken line A may be considered as the properworking space required for the cars or engines which may pass through,under or adjacent to the tower. The tower is also provided with a bin 10serving as a storage-bin for coal or other material which is to besubsequently loaded upon an engine or car and on the upper portion ofthe tower there is supported a trolley-track 11, L shaped in plan view.This trolley track 11 is therefore hereinafter referred to as theL-shaped trolley track. One leg of this trolley track extends laterallyfrom the tower over the storage-space and the other leg extendslongitudinally from the tower over the siding track 3. This L-shapedtrolley track is continuous, that is, it is constructed so that aconveyer, trolley or bucket as it may be called can be moved from anouter end 11 of the laterally extending leg around the vertex or curvedportion 11" to the outer end 11 of the longitudinally extending legportion. A portion of this trolley track 11 extends above the storagebin10 whereby material picked up by the bucket 12 from the storage-space 1,or material picked up as from the car 13 which is shown on the sidingtrack but at one end of the tower, can be delivered into thestorage-bin. The trolley, bucket or conveyor 12 is diagrammaticallyillustrated as being of the type which is known in the art as a grabbucket, but it will be manifest that any other suitable instrumentalitycan be employed to perform the conveying operation.

The storage-bin 10 is provided with chutes let and 15 each having at thedelivery portion thereof any suitable terminal, as 16 and 17, which canbe relied upon to render the chutes operative or inoperative, asdesired, whereby coal or other material from the storage-bin can bedelivered, respectively, to a car or engine on the running track 4:, orto a car or engine on the siding track 3, at will. The tower can be madeof any suitable construction and of any suitable material. It comprisesthe several uprights 18, the transverse members 19, the longitudinalmembers 20 and braces, such as 21. There is also provided a suitablebracing which comprises upwardly and outwardly extending members 22, anda longitudinally extending member 23 which is employed to support theouter end of the laterally extending portion of the trolley track 11. lhe tower is furthermore provided with a bracing comprising the members24 which extend upwardly and outwardly from the tower in a longitudinaldirection, and a transversely extending member 25 whereby said bracingcan serve as a support for the outer end 11 of the longitudinally extending leg portion or the L-shaped trolley track.

It will be noted from an inspection of the drawings that the car 13 canbe unloaded and the material thereof placed in the storage-bin 10, orthe unloaded material can be placed on the storage-space 1 so as to forma longitudinally extending pile. Or, on the other hand, the storedmaterial 2 can be picked up by the bucket or conveyer and can beconveyed to the storage-bin 10 on the tower, or it can be conveyed fromthe tower in a longitudinal direction to a car or engine, as car 13, forloading the latter. If the car 13 is brought under the tower be tweenthe uprights thereof the car-0r engine if such were the case-can befilled on the siding track 3 by properly positioning the member 17 ofthe chute 15. if a car or engine is in proper position on the track atopposite the chute 1e and terminal 16 said car or engine can be filledon the last mentioned track.

It will thus be observed that with my improved construction there isprovided a movable tower which can be positioned anywhere along and inoperative position in respect to the longitudinally extending ridge ofcoal or other material on the storage-space 1, and that bymeans of thistower material can be loaded on a car or engine on either track 3 ortrack 4, and also that by reason of the tower having a trolley track asdescribed a car or engine on the siding track 3 can be loaded withmaterial either from the ridge of stored material or from thestorage-bin 10, and that the material from the car could be conveyed tothe storage-bin 10 or to the storage-space 1, as desired.

The means for accomplishing the movement of the tower along the track isdiagrammatically indicated by the motor M and driving mechanism Gwhereby the motor through the medium of said driving mechanism canpropel the rollers or wheels 9 that support the tower. The mechanism forcontrolling and operating the bucket or conveyer 12 is designated by P.As, however, 'the construction of mechanisms such Moreover,

as just referred to is old and well known in the art further descriptionthereof is unnecessary at this time.

While the trackshave been referred to as a siding track and a runningtrack, it

will be observed that these names have beengiven to the particulartracks in order to distinguish them. The tracks of the plant are notnecessarily limited to a construction and arrangement in which thesiding track is what is technically known as a siding track and one inwh1ch the runnmg track is technically known as a running track asdistinguished from a siding track. In other words, for the purposes ofthis case applicant might have reversed the naming of the tracks andcorrespondingly changed the wording of his claims.

The improvementsherein set 'forth are not limited to the preciseconstruction and.

or bucket supported on said trolley track,

said trolley track being a continuous member having a portion whichextends laterally :t'rom the tower beyond the tower tracks and'over thestorage-space and another portion which extends longitudinally from thetower over a portion of said siding track whereby said bucket can bemoved from over the storagespace to the tower, thence from the towerover the siding track or vice versa.

2. A plant of the class described compris ing in combination adjacent toa storagespace, a siding track, a tower at one side of said storagespace and straddling said track, a trolley track carried by said tower,and a conveyer or bucket supported on said trolley track, said trolleytrack havinga portion which extends laterally from the tower over thestorage-space and another portion which extends longitudinally from thetower over said siding track, whereby with the same conveyer or bucketmaterial can be conveyed from a car on the siding track to saidstorage-space and vice versa.

3. A plant of the class described comprising in combination'with alongitudinally extending storage-space, a siding track ranged along andadjacent to said'storagespace, a tower track parallel to said sidingried by said tower, a trolley track carried by said tower, said trolleytrack having a portion which extends laterally from the tower over thestorage-space and also a portion which extends from the tower parallelto but ZLbOX G said siding track, there also being provided a conveyeror bucket which can be moved from above the storage-space to positionover the storage-bin and vice versa, from a position over the sidingtrack to the storagebin and vice versa, and also from position over thesiding track to position over the storage-space and vice versa.

4. In combination adjacent to a longitudinally extending storage-space,a siding track, a tower track parallel with but straddling said sidingtrack, a tower supported on said tower track and movable along the same,which tower is constructed so that an engine or car can pass along saidsiding track through or under said tower, at storage-bin carried by saidtower, a trolley track extending from the tower over said siding track,and a conveyer or bucket supported by said trolley track and movablelongitudinally from a position over said siding track and exterior ofthe tower to a position over said storage-bin and vice versa.

5. A plant of the class described co1nprising in combination adjacent toa longitudinally extending storage-space, asiding track, a tower trackparallel with said sidin g track, a tower upported on and movable alongsaid tower track, an L-shaped continuous trolley track having one leg ofthe L extending laterally from the tower over the storage-space and theother leg extending longitudinally from the tower over the siding track,a storage-bin carried by said tower and located under a portion of saidL-shaped trolley track, and a conveyer or bucket movable from one end ofthe trolley track to the other, the bin being constructed so that thecoal can be delivered from the conveyer or bucket into the bin and alsoso that coal can be taken from the bin by the conveyer or bucket fordelivery where desired.

6. An apparatus of the class described comprising in combination amovable tower constructed so that a car or engine can pass under orthrough the tower, a storage-bin carried by said tower in the upperportion thereof, an L-shaped trolley track carried by said tower andlocated above said storage-bin, a portion of which track extendslongitudinally from the tower and another portion of which track extendslaterally from the tower, and a bucket or trolley conveyer supported byand movable along said track.

7. A plant of the class described comprising in combination alongitudinally extending storage-space, a running track extendingsubstantially parallel to said storage-space, a siding track parallel tosaid running track and located between said running track on the onehand and the storage-space on the other, a trolley track which extendsparallel to and straddles said siding track, a tower movable along saidtrolley track which tower is constructed so that a car or engine on thesiding track can pass through or under said tower, a. storage-bincarried by the tower in the upper portion thereof, which storage-bin isconstructed so that it can deliver material from the storage-bin into anengine or car on the running track, an L-shaped trolley track carried bysaid tower one leg portion of which L extends laterally from the towerover the storagespace and the other leg portion of which extendslongitudinally from the tower over the siding track, and a trolleyconveyer or bucket supported by said track which trolley conveyer orbucket is movable along said track to or from a position over thestoragespace, to or from a position over the storage bin, and to or froma position over the siding track.

8. A plant of the class described comprising in combination astorage-space, a running track, a siding track parallel to said runningtrack and located between said running track on the one hand and thestorage-space on the other, a trolley track which extends parallel toand straddles said siding track, a tower movable along said trolleytrack which tower is constructed so that a car or engine on the sidingtrack can pass through or under said tower, a storagebin carried by thetower in the upper portion thereof, which storage-bin is constructed sothat it can deliver material from the storage-bin into an engine or caron the running track and also so that it can deliver material from thestorage-bin into an engine or car on the siding track, an L-shapedtrolley track carried by said tower, a portion of which track extendslaterally from the tower over the storage-space, another portion ofwhich track extend longitudinally from the tower over the siding track,and a trolley, conveyer or bucket supported by said track which trolley,conveyer or bucket is movable along said track to or from a positionover the storage-space, to or from a position over the storage-bin, andto or from a position over the siding track.

This specification signed and witnessed this 23d day of May, A. D. 1916.

VJILLIAM F. HUNT.

Signed in the presence of-- G. MCGRANN, EDWIN A. PACKARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D, C,

